The Specials

This town, oo-ooh, is coming like a ghost town, oo-ooh. Bands won't play no more... That line is from the Specials "Ghost Town", but it describes Hong Kong very well at the moment. A broad spectrum of musicians have cancelled gigs here. Spectrums don't get much broader than one which has to encompass The Rolling Stones, Moby, Andy Williams and Santana.

I'm in the midst of building a page which shows the current SARS outbreak using RRDTOOL. I just need to develop some ninja Perl to deal with the WHO hand coding every page on their site, so that all the line-breaks and table formatting is different. My preliminary graphs of the infection rates are scary: it looks like a vertical wall!